"Our governments are friends and allies, " Mitchell said Sunday after his meeting with Barak.
Barak likely will talk about the other issues before addressing the return of the territory.
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The campaign centered around attacking the former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's policies toward Lebanon.
On Feb. 6, Israeli voters tossed Mr. Barak out of office by a landslide.
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Prime Minister Barak informed President Clinton about his decision in their meeting last night.
It includes the Labour party, with its leader, Ehud Barak, as minister of defence.
Mr Barak will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak noted the dynamic in an interview with CNN that was broadcast Monday.
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Back in Tel Aviv, his defence minister, Ehud Barak, laid out terms for a final agreement.
Barak made his concession speech before a disappointed, yet cheerful, crowd of supporters in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Mr Barak might, if he so chose, break through this distrust with a decisive gesture.
What the Palestinians will not do is accept Mr Barak's good-guy self-portrait on trust.
Mr Barak claims that there is no similarity at all between his line and Mr Netanyahu's.
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Mr Sharon drove Mr Barak from office but in time he accepted his thinking.
In Gaza, Mr Barak promised the Palestinians he would discuss Wye on his return from Washington.
No Palestinian leader is accusing Mr Barak of wanting to pull a similar stunt.
Mr Barak needs a deal that enables Israelis to feel secure from attack, their nation undiminished.
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Mr Barak's coalition still has a 68-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset, but it is fragile.
President Hafez Assad said publicly that Mr Barak was a man he could do business with.
Many of these post-Zionist Court decisions were authored by retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak.
Mr. Sharansky, a member of Israel's Knesset, was minister of the interior in the Barak government.
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For its part, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government has responded to Kosovo's declaration of independence with customary confusion.
If anything, Mr Barak is signalling a softening of the positions he took at Camp David.
Mr Barak went a long way to comply with the demands of Mr Arafat.
They will not understand why they should vote for Netanyahu only to get Barak's policy.
Ironically, that is precisely what Barak claimed he was doing when he pulled out in 2000.
This is where the withdrawal from Lebanon could be particularly useful to Mr Barak.
Beilin understood that what Barak feared most was the fall of his government and new elections.
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Mr Arafat and his followers were reluctant, as were parts of Mr Barak's coalition.
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